Act two- Motif: Visions + Light vs Dark

Act two

Visions

Banquo: “I dremt last night of the three weird sisters:

To you they have showed some truth” p.25 (20)

This quote is said by Banquo and it proves his obssession with the witches and how they apear to him in dreams and how they can ‘see’ the thruth the witches have propheted

Macbeth: “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sigh, or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation” p.25 (35 to 38)

This quote, said by Macbeth shows he is envisionning the dagger and starting to obssess with the murder he has to do. It also explains the evilness of the dagger and the severity of the act he has to commit and that he is not really stable mentally.

Light V.S. Darkness

Fleance:“The moon is down; I have not heard the clock” p.24 (3)

Fleance says this to show that the night is foreshadowing the evil and the murder of King Duncan

Ross: “By th’ clock ‘tis day,

And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp:

Is’t night prediminance, or the day’s shame,

That darkness does the face of earth entomb,

When living light should kiss it?”p.37 (6 to 10)

Ross says that it is the day but it feels like the night because of the darkness outside. This is to foreshadow the coming evil and bad that will follow the kings death because of the events that will take place.

Lennox:“ ..the obscure bird

Clamour the livelong night.” p.33 (61)

Lennox says this because he is trying to show how long the night was and the darkness that had happened and how the bird has symbolism in the following passages as a metaphor.